Don't Look Now (1973)

My Rating: 7.5/10

Don't Look Now is one of those 70s horror movies that leaves you completely confused in the end of the movie. Don't Look Now was directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was Roeg's first ever horror movie directing and he did the film in such a fancy old English type of atmosphere. It also has nice peaceful music in the movie. Also it has strange and freaky music as well. Don't Look Now is about a grieving English couple to Venice, where the past continues to plague them. John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) are in mourning for their young daughter, who drownedtragically near their home. John takes a job in Venice so that the couple can leave the past behind, but, unfortunately, the past is not easily forgotten. While John begins to see unsettling visions of a young girl in a red coat running through the Venice streets, Laura learns from an elderly psychic that her husband is in grave danger. What follows is an eerie, erotic mystery that builds to a shockingly horrific climax.

Don't Look Now had a lot of mysterious and scary scenes in the film such as when the Baxter's daughter Christine drowns herself in a pond and John Baxter pulls her out but, she is already dead. There was also the biggest scene in the whole movie of Don't Look Now and thats when John Baxter chases down a mysterious thing in a light red raincoat. Just like the same red raincoat his daughter wore before she died. Finally when John Baxter reaches up to the mysterious thing in his daughter's raincoat where there in this tower like building but, you don't see what it is because it's back is turned and John Baxter tries to tell it that He won't hurt it and he says come on until finally the thing turns around. It appears to be a dwarf!
Then finally the dwarf pulls out a knife and stabs John in the neck, and John collapses on the floor and dies. It was a brilliant scene to end the entire film!

Don't Look Now won a BAFTA Film Award, and another 8 nominations. It also got #22 for Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Don't Look Now will always be a masterpiece in the history of Horror Movies!

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